The Heritage of Wilhelm Stenhammar
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Label: Caprice
Cat No: CAP22069
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 8th November 2019
Contents
Artists
Hans Leygraf (piano)Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Tor MannSixten Eckerberg
Artists
Hans Leygraf (piano)Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Tor MannSixten Eckerberg
About
Wilhelm Stenhammar stood just once in front of a microphone. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra gave a radio evening concert with him as a piano soloist. Thus, after the news on Sunday 13 June 1926, the Swedish people could listen in their headphones to how a multifaceted celebrity musician was playing along with his old friends. It was a prematurely aged 55-year-old who probably did not do very well – last spring Stenhammar had suffered a first brain haemorrhage, from which he had not yet fully recovered. And this was his last concert.
Despite the stroke, Stenhammar had tried just over three months earlier to pick up his abandoned baton in the Gothenburg concert hall and to end his career as an orchestra fosterer in a dignified manner. A year earlier, he had conducted his last opera performance, Donizetti’s opera The Daughter of the Regiment, which ended the Royal Theatre’s school concert on 15 February 1925.
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